The Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) requests applications for scientific meetings aimed at
creating interdisciplinary teams in basic behavioral and social science research. OppNet is a trans-NIH initiative to expand
the agency’s funding of basic behavioral and social sciences research. This announcement includes 29 NIH components.

While scientific breakthroughs increasingly occur through the integration of disciplines or knowledge sharing across disciplines,
existing infrastructures and scientific cultures create artificial barriers between disciplines that divide scientists and
impede progress. The purpose of this initiative is to encourage interdisciplinary basic behavioral and social science research
by a team composed of investigators who, collectively, have not previously collaborated.